Wired editor and "The Long Tail" author Chris Anderson introduces the Conservation Law of Transparency -- meaning you can't be open in all things all the time. While that may be true, his argument subtly implies that transparency is an absolute. I'm not sure if that was intended, but it's a false and important assumption to address within an otherwise interesting concept.

I am not going to write about newspapers anymore. Over the past three or four years, I have devoted quite a number of my columns to issues in the newspaper industry. No more. I no longer believe that the industry is very relevant to the future and things digital. Since I prefer to write about those topics, and am also becoming more interested lately in how the Internet will reshape the television and video industries, I plan to focus my attention there. However, since I am preparing for a talk I am giving next week to a number of newspaper …

It's my first post of the new year, and I have to say I'm pretty optimistic! I know the economy sucks, and most media pundits are forecasting 2009 and possibly 2010 will be a down period for everything, but I was thinking about it -- and I think we do our best work in a recession. I know I do!

The way people use Facebook is changing. What's more, something very significant is happening in the way people are communicating through social media in general. More and more, folks are sharing videos as a means of personal communication. What this means is that video is coming to Facebook in a big way, but it will not look like the video we have seen on such social media platforms as YouTube and MySpace

Unsure if this will surprise you, but I have never been one for New Year's resolutions. At least not in the classical sense: marking sins to rectify, wrongs to atone, goals to draft, and thresholds to bump up -- with New Year's Eve standing vigil.

At the time of this writing, I'm going on four hours of sleep. I've gotten used to it, I think. I may get an additional hour now and then, but rarely more than that. As sick as it sounds, sleep deprivation seems the sacrifice for the blessing of two beautiful kids in diapers and a promising start-up business. But that sacrifice is not good, because I'm feeling it. I especially feel it when I do get an occasional eight hours of sleep. I wake up groggy and feel my routine's been messed with. I'm longing to feel rested and in …